1-1     By:  Wohlgemuth, Reyna of Dallas                       H.B. No. 149
 1-2          (Senate Sponsor - Carona)
 1-3           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2001;
 1-4     May 10, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-5     Affairs; May 11, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-6     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to persons eligible to receive a license plate honoring
1-10     peace officers killed in the line of duty.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.   Section 502.289(a), Transportation Code, is
1-13     amended to read as follows:
1-14           (a)  The department shall issue specially designed license
1-15     [licensed] plates for a vehicle owned by:
1-16                 (1)  a person wounded in the line of duty as a peace
1-17     officer; or
1-18                 (2)  a surviving spouse, parent, brother, sister, or
1-19     adult child, including an adopted child or stepchild, of a person
1-20     killed in the line of  duty as a peace officer.
1-21           SECTION 2.   This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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